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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.

Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.

Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…

Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The definition I gave is objective, if someone supports the PRC, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, Cuba, former USSR, they are almost certainly going to be called a tankie at some point.

      That’s not a definition though. That’s just an incidental claim. It might be true that, “Anyone who likes Trump will be called a fascist,” but that’s obviously not what a fascist is.

      You’re playing silly buggers with this game and I don’t see the point. Just to piss someone off?

    • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      The definition you gave is an attempt to understand a colloquially used term that has expanded from it’s original conception

      It’s also just the correct one.

      considering “authoritarian left” is a horrendously ill-defined term in and of itself.

      Lol, you’re just upset that you’re in it and don’t want us to have an easy way to point and laugh at you. It’s not at all hard to anyone not a moron: it’s people with leftists beliefs who act authoritarian.

      The definition I gave is objective

      -ly wrong.

      anyone can clearly tell that I’m not illiterate nor stupid.

      Cute that you’d think that when you’re obviously incapable of basic reading comprehension.